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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1958)
Th* liattnllnn -> Cnllrff* Station fBrnm* Count}-), To.raa HACK 8 Wednesday, October 1, 19581 Battalion Rated High By Newspaper Critics Experience Total: 25 Years %•' ■mi Batt Staff Members Boast Professional Experience f Vk Eleven members of th* 1958-59 injr intern for the I a m*MM Daily I Battalion staff have muateml Reporter in » B> DAVE STOKER Hattalio* Ne«a Fiaitar A* one enters the office of The Battalien, he can't help but notice the many award* that adorn the walls of this publication'* entrance. Year after year The Battalion has place*I high in contest* and ratings held throughout the coun try, making it one of the top col lege dailies in the nation. Highlighting The Battalion's honor* is the award it received in the Collage Newspaper Contest on Safe Driving in 1956 In this contest The Battalion received a 1500 first place prise frotn Col Horner Garmon, director of the Texas Department of Public Safe ty, for ita Dec. 14, 1956. issue It received the highest rating over 271 other schools from 28 states. The Battalion ha* placed in the top three in the Safe Driving Con test for seven consecutive years, taking second place in 1950, third place in 1952, fimt place in 1953. third place in 1954 ami 1955 first place in 1956 find third place last year. Most recent of The Battalion's long line of awards is the n*ard it received last year from Colum bia University The battalion won Columbia’s medalist rating, the highest honor given by that uni- veraity. The Battalion, enjoying a read erahip of over 18,000, has also gained an abundance of prestige For The Battalion around college circles for the rat ing* it ha* received in the past from the Associated Collegiate Pres*, critical service at the Uni versity of Minnesota Last spring The Battalion, un der Joe Tindel, received a second place rating from the A CP, the third highest rating given by the service and comparable to "good to very good” by thrir rating In 1947 the pub'ication received the ACP's highest possible rating, the All American Honor, a ‘'supe rior'' rating. The Battalion re cyived the ACP’s first das* rating during the second semester, 1955- 56; first class rating during the first semester, 1956-57; and an other first class rating for the second semester, r.*56-57 i about 25 years of overall actual newspaper experience, counting their tours on daily and weekly newspapers around the stata in the term of months. Experience among the staff ranges from serving as a high of 19M he was a reporter for tha Llano News* which is owned by| his father. Ed Rivera Ed Rivers, Battalion reporter! Reporter's Job Is to Get Ston By ED RIVERA “Mv name is Jones I’m from the Battalion," the guy says to vnu Ha mivht he tall he might be abort He might smile, he might not He might tell vou a joke; and he might not laugh at one of yours. He’s a young man trying to do a job and, in the case of a Battalion reporter, he's also trying to gain experience in his chosen profession. Hall probably ask you questions, because it’s his job to find out things that the people want or need to know, or would enjoy knowing He deals in facta—the truth—no thing more. His opinion, and he has one, has no place in the news story. Mam Source His main source of facts is people so he has to deal with peo ple, all kinds of people Whether he gets along with them or not ieoends on hia individual pefson- tfity He may be anything from the cynic to the chaplain type, he cause he is only human. And how veil he get.* the facts, governs how well he does hia job The reporter is the master link in the chain of information be tween the news source and the reader When you pick up a news paper and read a story, it was his eyes that saw it for you, his ears that heard a first-hand account of it for you It was his trained mind that formulated the facts and put them in a reaHble form for you. People Divided bit if they carry their publicity hunger to an entreme, but they st»ll usually provide gnat for his mill Only those who want to st.av out of the news confront him with any real problem. Why * the r» onrter must ask himself Does their reason arise only out of per sonality or is their's a real ami important reason * Wh> Hide? Whst ia the reason this person or organisation wants to hide or alter the truth? The more im portant this person or organna- tien is in relation to the welfare of the public, the more important it ip for the reporter to learn the truth. To that person or organisation it might seem that the reporter is out to cut their throat The re porter deals in truth, and if their throat can be cut by the truth, then it may be cut. if the truth cannot hurt them, they have no worry in the first place. Perhaps such dashing-sounding terms of “the real truth" ia a thing a Battalion reporter will not come up against during his school ca reer But he still must prepare himself for the day that he will have to meet such a challenge be cause it is a part of the way of life that he has chosen. ( allege Major Lika the engineer or the busi ness major, his college career is devoted to getting ready to do the best job possible in his field He'll make mistakes bemuse he is human like everyone else When Six Professors Attend Meeting In San Antonio Six members of the Department of Crvil Engineering attended the annual meeting of the Texas Sec tion of the American Society of Civil Engineers at San Antonio. Sept 25-27. Several staff mem bers received appointments Those attending were Dr S R Wright, head of the department. | rolurnbu(l ()hjo ' w lU , peak PALL BROSS1A . . . tIndent minister Ohio Student Interns Here Paul Brossia. a student at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary in 1 Columbus. Ohio, has begun a year- j long internship at Our Saviour’a Lutheran Church. Brossia. serving the internship as a required part of the seminary program, will serve the congrega tion as an assistant to the pastor He will be adviser to the Lutheran Student Association, teach the Ag gie Bible Class aach Sunday and assist the local Lutheran League.' Student Meetings Highlight Serviees 01 R SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN ( HI R(H Lutheran student meeting will be held tonjght at 7 15 Paul Broasia, aammary student from Bill Reed Bill Reed, new* editor from Bon-1 ham. is the “pro" around the Batt- cave As a hi*'h school student from Lufkin, was a reporter fori he was circulation manager and I the Galveston News for foun harkshop helner of the Bonham I months and for the Lufkin Daily Daily Favorite for three years, and News for eight months. This is school handyman in the printing . . . * | served there as a renorter one his second year on The Batt staff.) summer He took his advertising , Tommy Keith internship at the daily Kilgore; Tommy Keith, senior f r o ml News Herald the past summer, re- j Cleveland, has been working for] turning to AAM for his second tour of Battalion duty. Johnny Johnson Johnny Johnson, sophomore from Bogota, served as Battalion sum mer editor in 1958 after only a •hop of a newspaper, to fulfilling Texas Daily Newspaper Assn, in-1 temships on Texas dailies. Joe Ruaer Editor Joe Buser. of Arp. stepped into the professional newspaper field after his sophomore year I when he became editor of the weekly Hondo Anvil Herald dur ing the summer of 1957. I-aat summer he was a new* intern on the daily Wichita Falls Record { New* He is serving his the AAM Agricultural Information! Office for the past two year*. Ir his serond year at The Battalion] he is a sports writer. Dave Stoker Dave Stoker, junior new* edi-j year's experience on the campus tor from lk>rt Worth, utilised last daily He worked parttime for summer a* a reporter for the hi] third thf Abilene Reporter-New* while weekly Hereford Brand. He yenr on The Battalion staff, having i ‘ n school, and served as edt- serving his second year as a Batt Dr Wendell H. Nedderman, Dr R M Holcomb, R E Schiller Jr., E. P Segner Jr and J S Noel Segner is executive secretary of the Texas Section and Dr W'rigty represents the Brazos County branch on the board of directors Noel is editor of the "Texas Engi- ! neer," monthly publication of the Texas Section. Three members of the civil en I gineermg staff make up the Tell- j ers committee They are James B Baty, chairman; Dr Nedder man; and T J Hirsch. Dr Nedderman was appointed chairman of the Structural Tech nical Group, Schiller was named to the Hydraulic Group and Tru man Jones, also of the depart | ment, was named to the member | ship committee Milner Hall Ags F'irst copies of the Voice of Mil ner, a bi-weekly newspaper pub lished by Milner Hall students, were distributed Monday, Lee Lowery, editor of the paper, said SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION "How D<> I Know What 1 Should Do with My Life ” WESTMINSTER STUDENT FELLOWSHIP The student fellowship will meet tonight at 7 and will be conducted by the Rev. Charles Workman Films of work camp and student seminars in Mexico will be shown. filled the roles of reporter, news editor and now , editor F'red Meurer Fred Meurer, of Corpus Christi, managing editor of TNe Battalion, began his professional experience as 1957 summer editor of the W’il- 1 news editor 'iamson County Sun in George town He fulfilled his new* In-1 ternship for the daily Port Arthur { News last summer, coming back to school to take over his new poai- I tion. In two previous year* on j The Halt staff, he has been a I reporter and news editor. Gayle McNutt Gayle McNutt. Comanche senior, was a news intern on the daily Abilene Reporter-News staff dur ing the past summer. Before that, he fulfilled two terms as a Batt-! man in the roles of reporter and city editor. This year he is exec utive news editor Bob Week ley Bob Weekley, Battalion sports editor from Brown wood, is serving his second year ou the sport* staff Last summer he was an advertis- tor of the Mount Pleasant Daily Times in the summer of 1957 Lewi* Reddell Jay Collins, a University of Calj ifordia transfer, had journalist Lewi* Reddell, Llano junior, is | experience in high school and waJ serving his second year on The on the newspaper vtoff at UC Battalion staff, this year as a This is hi* firwt year for The Bat] During the summer talion. / Military SHcm^a YORKTOWN The Bent Buy In Town Only $10.95 w At LOUPOTS It Pays To Trade With Ia>u GET SATISFYING FLAVOR... So friendly to your taste! No fIat"filtered-out"fIavor! No dry "smoked-out "taste! So far as the reporter s job is j he misspell* a aame in a story or ! foncemed, people can be roughly gets a figura wrong, it’s bocause divided into three categories those he's young and eager who want to get into the new*. 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